Globalization

At the beginning of this unit, when we started talking about globalization, I really didn't understand it to be honest, and I think thats just because I had no idea what it actually meant. But after discussing it for so long, and reading part of How Soccer Explains the World, Im starting to understand the effects of globalization. I've come up with a pros and cons which makes it a little bit easier to understand the many many many effects it has on us.

Pros: more jobs, meaning a solution to unemployment and poverty, it makes companies more competitive...which I guess could be a pro for consumers because it would make better products? and then the obvious fact that consumers all over the world have access to a ton more products then they would have if just from the US; oh and I guess we're introduced to new cultures too which is a plus...

Cons: huge corporations take advantage of their size and the amount of money that they have....which has led to massive social injustices, also huge corporations can exploit labor and find really really cheap workers somewhere else (employment would be good everywhere but home?)

I'm sure there are millions more pros and cons, but like I said, I'm just starting to understand what it actually is....so I think these will do for now.